Re: YAEPT: English phoneme inventory?
| From: | John Cowan <cowan@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, July 20, 2003, 15:06 |
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Stone Gordonssen scripsit:
> >AFAIK, all Americans pronounce "Mary" as /meiri/; the question is
> >whether
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> No, not all.
Note the slashes.
> >they pronounce "merry" and "marry" as /meiri/ also. For me they are
> >/mEri/ and /m&ri/ respectively.
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> [mE.4i], [mEr\r\i] [m&r\r\i] for me
Wow. "Peter, Paul, and Meddy"? Wow.
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